The resounding success of Jashn-e-Rekhta in Delhi and the Urdu Book Fair at Aligarh Muslim University indicate the enduring ...

Hyderabad: The 96-year-old embodiment of education and culture, S T Venkata Appalacharyulu, breathed his last on Friday ...

The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...

Row Over Replacing Urdu With Sanskrit In Rajasthan Schools The move comes on the heels of Rajasthan ordering the "merger" of four Urdu-medium schools and what fuelled the growing resentment was a ...

MARCH 8 marks International Women’s Day. So let us celebrate the achievements of women who have illuminated horizon of Urdu’s literary research and criticism with their writings. Though women’s ...

A view of the Supreme Court of India building, an apex judicial body of the country, in New Delhi.(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal ...